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.Dd February 6, 2012
.Dt FIXWHITE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm fixwhite
.Nd remove unneeded whitespace from text files
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility removes unneeded whitespace from text passed to standard input
and prints the result to standard output.
.Pp
It removes leading and trailing empty lines from the input, as well as
trailing whitespace characters from ever line of text.
Multiple successive empty lines are merged together.
If the whitespace at the beginning of a sentence is exactly a multiple
of eight spaces, the whitespace is replaced by tabs.
Also, spaces preceding tabs will be merged into the tab character.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Ed Schouten Aq Mt ed@FreeBSD.org
